Cat 5e and Cat 6 Differences and Benefits
Bandwidth precedes data rates just as highways come prior to traffic. Doubling the bandwidth is like adding two times the number of lanes on a highway. The trends of the past and the predictions for the future indicate that rates have been doubling every 18 months.
Current applications running at 1 Gb/s are really pushing the limits of category 5e cabling. As streaming media applications such as video and multi-media become common, the demands for faster data rates will increase and create new applications that will benefit from the higher bandwidth offered by category 6. This is exactly what happened in the early 90’s when the higher bandwidth of category 5 cabling compared to category 3 caused most LAN applications to choose the new media to allow simpler, cost effective, higher speed LAN applications, such as 100BASE-TX. Note: Bandwidth is defined as the highest frequency up to which positive power …
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